# H7307 רוּחַ

רוּחַ (rûwach), Strong’s H7307: wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky;… KJV: air…

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*rûwach* — wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky;…

KJV: air, anger, blast, breath, [idiom] cool, courage, mind, [idiom] quarter, [idiom] side…

Derived from [רוּחַ rûwach](https://besorah.bible/word/H7306) (to blow, i.e. breathe)

Occurs 378 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- רוּחַ 378 n.f. (less oft. m.) breath, wind, spirit
- 1 breath of mouth or nostrils (33 t.)
- 2 wind (117 t.)
- 3 spirit, as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation = temper, disposition (76 t.)
- 4 spirit of the living, breathing being
- 5 spirit as seat of emotion
- 6 occasionally (and late) = seat or organ of mental acts
- 7 rarely of the will
- 8 רוּחַ esp. of moral character
- 9 spirit of God (94 t.)

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=2) — The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…
- [Genesis 3:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=8) — They heard the LORD God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves…
- [Genesis 6:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=3) — The LORD said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred…
- [Genesis 6:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=17) — I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the…
- [Genesis 7:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=15) — Pairs from all flesh with the breath of life in them went into the ship to Noah.
- [Genesis 7:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=22) — All on the dry land, in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.
- [Genesis 8:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=1) — God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the livestock that were with him in the ship; and God made a wind to pass…
- [Genesis 26:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=35) — They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.
- [Genesis 41:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=8) — In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told…
- [Genesis 41:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=38) — Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”